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martedì 24 marzo 2015

Chelsea is out of the Champions League without losing a single match: 4 wins and 4 draws.For the third time, a Madrid derby will be played in the Champions League/European Cup: the first time was a semifinal in 1958-1959, when Real Madrid won the playoff 2-1 (the two legs ended 2-1 and 0-1, and there was no extra-time), and the second was last year's final, when Real Madrid won 4-1 after extra-time.
This is the list of the teams who reached the quarter-finals, with the number of times that they already played this round in the Champions League/European Cup, and the year when they played the last time this round.Atletico Madrid: 6 times (last in 2014)Barcelona: 16 (2014)Bayern Munich: 25 (2014)Juventus: 15 (2013)Monaco: 3 (2004)Paris Saint-Germain: 3 (2014)Porto: 6 (2009)Real Madrid: 31 (2014)

sabato 21 marzo 2015

According to the ECRS, after the Round of 16 Villareal(Spain) is the best team in the European Cups, with 414,77 points, though they were eliminated in the last round by Sevilla.At the second place there is the first team still in the competition, Club Brugge (Belgium), with 394,84.At the third place we find the former second-place team, Dynamo Moscow (Russia), with 380,85 points.All these three teams played or are playing in Europa League; the best team in Champions League is Porto (Portugal), at 4th overall place with 358,46 points.The worst team still in the competition is Paris Saint-Germain (France), who passed the last round drawing twice against Chelsea; they are in the 54th position with 158,71 points.

giovedì 12 marzo 2015

Yesterday, Bayern Munich won 7-0 at home against Shakhtar Donetsk, after having tied 0-0 the first leg in Ukraine.It's the third time that Bayern Munich score 7 goals in the 2nd leg of the Champions League's Round of 16: it happened twice in recent years, the first time in 2008-2009 against Sporting Lisbon (1st leg 5-0 and 2nd leg 7-1), and the second time in 2011-2012 against FC Basel (they lost the first leg 0-1, and then won 7-0 in Munich).This was also the last time that a team scored at least 7 goals in a Champions League match, considering only the rounds from the Round of 16 onwards. Barcelona also won 7-1 against Bayer Leverkusen in the same round of 2011-2012 season, but this happened the week before Bayern Munich's match against FC Basel.

mercoledì 11 marzo 2015

Yesterday, Real Madrid suffered a 3-4 loss at home against Schalke 04, but they managed to go through the round of Champions League.The last (and only) time that Real Madrid conceded 4 goals at home in a European Cup was on 29th February 2000, against another German team, Bayern Munich; the match ended 2-4. It was the third matchday of the second group stage, and both the teams finally went through the stage.

martedì 10 marzo 2015

In the table below you can see some stats about the top 10 European leagues, regarding the matches played until now in this season.This is the legend:Draws = percentage of matches ended with a draw;GPG = average goals scored per game;Over 1,5 / Over 2,5 / Over 3,5 = percentage of matches where the total number of goals was over the set threshold;Matchdays = number of matchdays played until now.The league with the highest number of goals scored per game is the Eredivisie (Netherlands), while the French Ligue 1 has the lowest.Italy's Serie A is the league with the highest number of draws.